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...ate a leisurely lunch at the L.B.J...
Even into the 1960s, the Jesuit seminarians at Maryland's Woodstock College seldom left the leafy campus overlooking the Patapsco River Valley. They rose at 5:30 a.m. to the clang of a seminary bell, attended compulsory early Mass, skittered around the campus in long black cassocks. They ate their meals silently while a prefect read from learned books. But neither its cloistered atmosphere nor its age (founded in 1869, it was the oldest Jesuit theologate in the U.S.) prevented Woodstock from being the nation's most dynamic institution of Roman Catholic theology...
...requires the separation of civil and criminal offenders, Farr was put into a kind of isolation in the jail's hospital, where, unlike other prisoners, he was given a private room 8 ft. by 12 ft. It had no bars, just a small window in the door. Farr ate there alone, away from the common thieves and muggers. ("The food is good. Starchy, but plentiful and pretty good.") He could not take exercise with fellow inmates, so he established a private regimen: 30 push-ups and 60 sit-ups three times...
Trying to identify the 29 bodies, one survivor tossed a trepanned skull to another and said in a jocular way, "You should know who this guy is; you ate his brains." Macabre though this sounds, it is also an understandable manifestation of the need of the living to conceal-chiefly from themselves -how devastated they felt by the circumstances of their survival...
...Truman was out of bed, ate well, seemed much better, and then, in his doctor's words, "just hit bottom." Graham had him admitted to Research Hospital.* Truman was conscious, his condition was rated "fair," and he was expected to recover. Only 26 hours after admission, his heart began racing at 140 beats per minute, his blood pressure dropped to 80 over 60 (120 over 80 is normal), and respiration was failing. To pull him through this "ultracritical" period, doctors placed an oxygen mask over his face, and gave antibiotics by intramuscular injection to help combat the congestion...